Artists

Current Cast of Characters...

Karin Bolstad

Karin Bolstad is a mixed media artist and painter. Her artwork is primarily figurative and is influenced by both turn of the century illustration and Byzantine Iconography (how's THAT for eclectic?). She is the Headmistress of Blueschool Arts.

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Sara Saltee

Sara Saltee is an assemblage and collage artist who has lived on Whidbey Island since 2005. Her one-of-a-kind shrines and shadowboxes express a poetic sensibility, often taking an intriguing quote, lyric, or found snippet of text as a starting point. Without her insight, enthusiasm and creative soul it would have been difficult to start the endeavor that is Blueschool Arts. She's the bee's knees.

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Tammi Sloan

Tammi is an amazing jewelry designer and artist, all that with a whole lotta style. We are so lucky to have her we could just squeeze her until her head popped off (we couldn't have launched Blueschool without her and her amazing organization skills)!!!

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Kim Hodges

Kim Hodges is the owner of Whidbey Wares, a company that is (currently) primarily making candles, but will be expanding into a lot of other fun stuff too. She also is a wife and mother, and does day job type stuff for Marriott. We love how her candles make the studio smell. mmmmmm.....

Carrie Whitney

Like a superhero monk, Carrie ritualistically paints the figure trying to capture life’s fascinating fleeting moments before they escape.

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Melissa Koch

Melissa Koch is a well-known, highly respected artist whose works can be found across the United States and Europe. Melissa has spent much of her life traveling and studying the arts. We bow before her talent and expertise, and appreciate the fairy dust she leaves in her wake.

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Doug Hansen

Doug’s years of art studies combined with his artisan skills have given rise to an inventive style that integrates oils and organic elements into unexpectedly unique three-dimensional studies.
“My work attempts to capture the beauty, tranquility and peace-of-mind alive in nature and bring that feeling back indoors.” (He TOTALLY succeeds)

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Maggie

Maggie likes to dabble in shredded paper, sticks, and biscuit debris. She has an ongoing performance art piece entitled "run baby bunny run (or die)". She also plays a part as the Blueschool muse by providing wags, wiggles, and infinite licks. Literally. Infinite.